It's the middle of the week, which means it's time for the Media Create charts out of Japan. The previous week saw Super Mario Odysseyhit around half a million sales at launch, the figure varying depending on whether you prefer Media Create or Famitsu numbers.

Starting with the software chart this week, Mario's adventure has been toppled from the number one spot by the PS4 version of Call of Duty: WWII, but nevertheless returned sales numbers in six figures in its second week. Style Savvy: Styling Star made its debut on 3DS in fourth place, which isn't bad but doesn't exactly set the charts alight. The results are below with lifetime sales in brackets.

Moving on to hardware, the major Switch bump driven by Odyssey bundles fell away, but the system is still way out from its rivals as the best seller. New 2DS LL and New 3DS LL (XL) also delivered increases in their customary third and fourth places.

Switch – 64,387 (126,701)

PlayStation 4 – 21,830 (18,719)

New 2DS LL – 11,116 (9,203)

New 3DS LL – 7,914 (6,448)

PlayStation 4 Pro – 6,993 (5,934)

PlayStation Vita – 3,576 (3,705)

2DS – 1,539 (1,412)

New 3DS – 287 (220)

Xbox One – 114 (97)

PlayStation 3 – 56 (45)

Wii U – 38 (41)

So there you have it, another week with some positive sales results for Nintendo in Japan.

Super Mario Odyssey has stolen Splatoon 2's title as the best-selling non-new release. Still has some way to go to match those sales, though! Those Pokken sales are starting to look pretty respectable too, given the fact it's a re-release of a 1v1 fighter, which is up there with 2D platformers as probably the best-served genre on Switch.

I'm making Splatoon 2 my defacto game delineator for Japan. If you sell more than Splatoon 2 there, you had an ok week. 4 games in Japan this week ahead of S2, 3 of those were new. Splatoon has legs, 8 of them. Everybody needs a benchmark.

Splatoon 2 is the only game in the top 20 w/ over 1 million sales. Though Animal Crossing New Leaf would be there but they are counting Amiibo + as it's own game, not adding it to the nearly 5m sales of the original.

Btw, off topic. I found Yonder : The Cloud Catcher Chronicles PS4 was the OPPOSITE of that stupid nsfw war games. I play that 100% Peaceful game, Counterpart with those gamers that adore War and Weapons. I am Yang when they are Yin.

@Chandlero Actually, it’s not weird. German people don't associated themselves with Nazi ideology or ideologies from that time period, so consuming media or entertainment depicting Nazies in a negative light isn’t offensive to them. And rightfully so. It’s similar to how Americans don’t associate themselves with sins of the past, like slavery. And last I checked, Americans have no issues consuming media depicting the civil war and slavery in a negative light.

@Si2k78 I would say due to the amount of censorship still put upon games pertaining to that time period, there's quite a bit of association still existing. It would be like American's censoring the word slaves and replacing it with "forced laborers". If they really felt it was a different time with people completely unrelated to present-day Germany, I do not see a reason to censor things such as Nazi symbols from games.

@Anti-Matter You gotta chill just a bit man. We know you don't like violent games but you don't need to announce it on every article in which one is mentioned. People are allowed to like different games.

Will be interesting to see how well Super Mario Odyssey sells in the long run considering the 3D Mario platformers don't traditionally do as well in Japan as the 2D ones. Odyssey is still exceptional and it'd be nice to see it hit at least 1 mil.